Friday, April 4, 2014

On Friday May 16, 2pm until 3.30pm in the Goodman Fielder Room, Level 4, of the Aotea Center, I will be presenting a workshop as part of the AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL.

In short, I'll be talking about what makes a good photograph. Will be fun! The festival have this to say about the event: With more than 380 billion photographs taken each year, each telling a
story, almost everybody these day considers themselves a photographer.
But while seemingly easy, taking a great photograph is anything but.
Art-based photographer Harvey Benge published his first photobook in
1993; twenty years on with more than 40 publications to his credit,
Benge can spot a great picture from a dog. In this workshop he explains
the distinction.

About Me

My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
I am asking the viewer to question the idea that photographs as documents are complete representations of subject.
I'm interested in the universality of life and the idea of parallel lives - when one thing is happening here, something else is happening over there. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems.
I work and live between Auckland and Paris.
http://harveybenge.com/
email:harvey.benge@xtra.co.nz